Capstone Workshop Improving STEM education in Ghana COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

Capstone Workshop Improving STEM education in Ghana COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog A signature of the SIPA curriculum is the Capstone Workshop, a live consulting project on a real-world issue for an outside organization. Youll work with small consulting teams of other SIPA students under the guidance of an expert faculty advisor. This is just two of the Spring 2018 workshops out of the 80+ projects each year, and your project could be in the public, private, and nonprofit sector Building a Hands-on Science Culture Among Ghanaian STEM Teachers Client:  Practical Education Network (PEN) Based on the finding that one-off teacher trainings alone are not sufficient to enable teachers to implement hands-on science, the Capstone team developed an incentive strategy to increase teacher uptake of in-class activities. The team also made recommendations to improve PEN’s monitoring evaluation practices, including providing guidance on data collection, analysis, and storage. The team’s final deliverables include toolkits, step-by-step implementation, and measurement guides for immediate incorporation into organization processes. Learn more here. Clean Cooking Energy Enterprise in Uganda Client:  United Nations Capital Development Fund In Uganda, only 2% of the population has access to clean cooking technologies while the majority of households rely on biomass to cook, thus making the expansion of the clean cooking sector a major challenge in the country. To fulfill the client’s requests of providing diagnostics to help the companies attract further technical and investment support, the Capstone team undertook background research on the sector, conducted interviews with international organizations and local associations, and took a weeklong field visit to Uganda to meet with local entrepreneurs and produced a set of deliverables, including company prescriptions, company profiles and a website with database feature, to advise them properly on the ways in which they could scale up their efforts. Learn more here. Check out the full list of SIPA Capstone Workshops here.